''Paralomis histrix'' is a species of
king crab.
[ It lives at a depth of in ]Tokyo Bay
is a bay located in the southern Kantō region of Japan spanning the coasts of Tokyo, Kanagawa Prefecture, and Chiba Prefecture, on the southern coast of the island of Honshu. Tokyo Bay is connected to the Pacific Ocean by the Uraga Channel. Th ...
, Enshunada and through to Kyūshū
is the third-largest island of Japan's four main islands and the most southerly of the four largest islands (i.e. excluding Okinawa and the other Ryukyu (''Nansei'') Islands). In the past, it has been known as , and . The historical regio ...
. It has few predator
Predation is a biological interaction in which one organism, the predator, kills and eats another organism, its prey. It is one of a family of common List of feeding behaviours, feeding behaviours that includes parasitism and micropredation ...
s because of its size and spiky carapace
A carapace is a dorsal (upper) section of the exoskeleton or shell in a number of animal groups, including arthropods, such as crustaceans and arachnids, as well as vertebrates, such as turtles and tortoises. In turtles and tortoises, the unde ...
.[ ] It is sometimes kept in public aquarium
A public aquarium () or public water zoo is the aquatic counterpart of a zoo, which houses living aquatic animal and aquatic plant, plant specimens for public viewing. Most public aquariums feature tanks larger than those kept by home aquarists, ...
s and is occasionally referred to as the porcupine crab,Neolithodes grimaldii
''Neolithodes grimaldii'', the porcupine crab, is a species of king crab. It is found in cold, deep waters in the North Atlantic, often caught as bycatch in fisheries for Greenland halibut (''Reinhardtius hippoglossoides''). As suggested by its ...
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King crabs
Endemic crustaceans of Japan
Anomura of the Pacific Ocean
Crustaceans described in 1849
Taxa named by Wilhem de Haan
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